Spore
The creators of The Sims present the next big bang - SPORE. Create your unique creature and guide it on an epic journey through a universe of your own creations. Play any way you choose in the five evolutionary phases of Spore: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. How you play and what you do with your universe is entirely up to you. Spore gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even starships.
PC Minimum - Windows XP/Vista, 6 GB Hard Drive Space, 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent, 768 MB RAM, 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 Mac Minimum - Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher, 4.7GB Hard Drive Space, Intel Core Duo Processor, 1024 MB RAM; ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
Create universal wonder in Spore, an exciting new simulation game that lets you develop your own personal universe. Work your way through five evolutionary phases, including Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization and Space, that offer unique challenges, thrills and goals. For example, you can start in Cell and nurture one species from a simple aquatic organism all the way until it becomes a sentient life form. Or you can jump right in and begin building tribes and civilizations on multiple planets. What you do with your universe is totally up to you.
The powerful creation tools of Spore are easy to use, allowing you to effortlessly design every aspect of your universe. Creatures, vehicles, building and even starships are all within your grasp. While Spore is a single-player game, your creations and other players' creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, offering a nearly limitless number of worlds to visit and enjoy. You can also go online to view the incredible things other players have made and can even pull those items into your universe. Spore gives you the chance to make worlds and beings that evolve, grow and delight you every step of the way. SPORE CREATURE CREATORFinally all that hard work creating the perfect being can be put to good use. Import creatures that you created with the Spore Creature Creator and watch them live, breath and thrive in the full version of Spore. TAKE YOUR SPORE ONLINEWhile Spore is a single player game, your creations and other players? creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play within. Internet Connection Required. Minimum System RequirementsThis game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems (PowerMac) - PC Minimum - Windows XP/Vista
- 6 GB Hard Drive Space
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 768 MB RAM
- 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
- Mac Minimum - Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard or higher
- 4.7GB Hard Drive Space
- Intel Core Duo Processor
- 1024 MB RAM
- ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100
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Spore Reviews
The "special abilities" don't seem to work properly, a foot with a speed rating of 5 still moves like a one, wings don't allow you creature to fly, and so forth. The controls are ackward, and inconsistant thoughout the game. And while I have enjoyed building unique creatures, placing them into an environment, then running them thru their paces, the game still leaves much to be desired. There's no real "design" to the creatures, meaning just stick on a part anywhere to gain an ability (like sticking a horn on the creature's behind to gain a "charge" ability.
price tag, the Secure-DDR, coupled with the limitations in the game play just doesn't make this a good buy. One of the things that has always attracked me to the MAXIS brand is the customization built into their games (i.e. Finally you can't customize your own world, or populate it with your own creatures, so forget about setting up a "theme" or a "plot". The game is fun, for awhile anyway, but the [.]. And last but not least you can create all the creatures in create mode all you want, you still can't seem to play them in the game.
Can't pan out to get a eagle view, etc.,. sims 1&2). Wait a while, in a year of two you maybe able to pick it up for &25 or less.
I'm not at all happy that EA continues to force this DRM on us when according to articles, it hasn't done much to stop the software pirates. I've been a long time Sims fan, but if it has this garbage on it I'm not touching it. All it does is punish the paying customer. Unfortunately due to the invasive nature of the latest SecuROM we won't be buying. So I'll find my family a game that isn't so draconian with it's copyright protection software. My husband & kids were looking forward to getting Spore as a Christmas present. The same goes for Sims 3. I see no point in being required to connect to the internet to play a computer game that isn't played online, besides the kids gaming computer is not connected to the internet.
Got this for my boyfriend on his 24th birthday. Upon seeing him play it, I loved it too (28 years old). (FYI, we havent had ANYTHING crash on our Mac, which we have had for one year, so I'm hesitant to think the problem is with the Mac).
We often play it together, or bicker over who gets to play it solo. My cousins (ages 10 and 13) love it too. Excellent game, lots of fun, adjustable difficulty levels. Either way, the game is fun and worth the $.
Just save the game frequently, as it has sporadically crashed twice on our Mac.
My son and I are TOTALLY addicted to this game. When we play a video game it is Spore we play.
If you reach that limit, then you'll have to call EA in order to add one extra activation. EA, of course, is not obligated to grant you that extra activation or even provide that service. I TOTALLY AGGREE. That's not as simple as it sounds, since when you reach that point EA will assume that you, the paying customer, are a filthy pirating thief. In a couple of years they might very well even shut down the general activation servers, because "it's not financially feasible" to keep them running.
You will need to provide proof of purchase, reasons why the limit was reached, etc, etc (it has all happened before with another recent EA product, Mass Effect). And you will be required to pay for another copy/license if you want to continue playing. the game incorporates a draconian DRM system that requires you to activate over the internet, and limits you to a grand total of 3 activations. What you will be left with is a nice, colorful $50 coaster.
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